Adding Dependency Injection support for Service Fabric Stateful Services and Actors

Check this page out: https://alexmg.com/introducing-the-autofac-integration-for-service-fabric/

Right from the maker of Autofac. You'll need to import the Autofac.ServiceFabric NuGet package, which is currently in beta.

Note: As of the current version (1.0.0-beta1) the InternalsVisibleTo functionality mentioned in the article doesn't work, so you ** HAVE TO ** set your registered Actors and Reliable Services to "public" visibility.

Note 2: The dependencies on the Autofac.ServiceFabric NuGet package aren't set correctly, so you'll have to "Update-Package Autofac -Version 4.6.0" since 4.5.0 isn't good enough.

Creating your own repository for PowerShell modules

Apparently it's quite easy, according to Microsoft. All you need is a slightly tweaked NuGet repository.

Mono.Options installation, and getting StyleCop to ignore a file

I've recently discovered the Mono.Options library (available via NuGet) that lets you easily parse arguments passed into a program. Unfortunately, the ease with which a package is typically installed via NuGet does not apply to Mono.Options because it's a single .cs file that gets included in your project, rather than a signed assembly. This becomes an annoyance in projects where StyleCop is used to enforce coding standards. Fortunately, there is a way to get StyleCop to ignore specific files (rather than forcing me to tweak my StyleCop settings for the project) which I found out about here. The TL;DR for that article: edit your project file, and underneath the element for the offending file, insert a <ExcludeFromStyleCop>true</ExcludeFromStyleCop> element.